EL MONTE, Calif., Dec. 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — NAVEE, a leading innovator in smart mobility, will debut at CES® 2026, to be held from January 6 to 9 in Las Vegas, where it will unveil its latest smart mobility solutions designed to address a wide range of riding and usage scenarios, from high-performance applications to everyday urban commuting.

NAVEE will exhibit at the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC), North Hall — Booth #10548, and host a Brand Journey & Product Launch Event on January 7, 2026, from 13:30 to 16:00.

The showcase will feature a new product lineup, including an electric scooter concept inspired by supercar design, GPS-enabled golf push carts with AI-based visual obstacle detection, and off-road dirt bikes, and more, highlighting NAVEE’s expanding capabilities in intelligent mobility technology.

Beyond the product lineup itself, NAVEE’s CES presence highlights a system-level approach to performance, demonstrating how automotive-grade design philosophy and engineering principles extend across different mobility categories. Through immersive displays and on-site demonstrations, visitors will gain insight into the brand’s development mindset and future product direction.

In 2025, NAVEE achieved strong global growth with its flagship electric scooter, the ST3 Pro, which has received positive recognition from media reviewers. The ST3 Pro is also the first electric scooter to adopt automotive-grade suspension materials, reflecting NAVEE’s focus on ride comfort and durability.

Today, NAVEE operates in more than 60 countries and regions, spanning North America, the European Union, the Middle East, and beyond.

“CES 2026 marks an important step for NAVEE as we present our expanding mobility portfolio on a global stage,” said Mr. Lu, CEO of NAVEE. “Guided by our mission to navigate the infinite possibilities of future mobility, we focus on applying intelligent, automotive-grade engineering and design thinking to build reliable, forward-looking mobility technologies.”

NAVEE plans to share additional information and on-site updates during CES 2026, including highlights from its January 7 launch event.

About NAVEE

NAVEE is a global smart mobility brand focused on system-level engineering and intelligent technology integration. Leveraging automotive-grade design, advanced suspension systems, and AI-enabled control technologies, NAVEE develops high-performance mobility products designed to support more sustainable and adaptable urban transportation worldwide. Learn more about NAVEE and its vision for next-generation smart mobility at https://naveetech.com/.

WUZHOU, China, Dec. 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — The jewelry business is at a turning point. Consumers no longer want cookie-cutter engagement rings or predictable white diamonds. They want color, personality, and pieces that make a statement—preferably without the ethical baggage of traditional mining.

Messi Jewelry, a lab-grown diamond manufacturer and jewelry supplier established in 2018, is responding to this shift with a new fancy color diamond collection that spans the spectrum from soft pinks to vivid yellows and blues.

Why Color Matters Now

Walk into any jewelry store today and you’ll hear the same requests: bigger stones, bolder designs, and something that doesn’t look like everyone else’s ring. The numbers back this up. Precedence Research projects the lab-grown diamond market^[1] will balloon from $29.73 billion in 2025 to $97.85 billion by 2034—a 14.15% annual growth rate. Similar growth is predicted by Fortune Business Insights, which projects that it will reach $74.45 billion by 2032 from $25.89 billion in 2024.

But the real story isn’t just market size. It’s what’s driving that growth: younger buyers who treat jewelry purchases differently than their parents did. They care about sourcing. They want customization. And increasingly, they’re drawn to colored stones that white diamonds simply can’t compete with.

Celebrity influence plays a role as well. Earlier this year, a widely publicized engagement involving a globally recognized American music artist, featuring an 8-carat engagement ring, sparked a sharp increase in Google searches for large lab-grown diamonds.

“People message us asking for pink diamond necklaces or statement rings in canary yellow,” said Jimmy Wu, who founded Messi Jewelry seven years ago. “Five years ago, those requests were rare. Now they’re daily. Our clients want jewelry that tells their story, not a story someone else wrote for them.”

Beyond the White Diamond Monopoly

Messi Jewelry works with both CVD (Chemical Vapor Deposition) and HPHT (High Pressure High Temperature) methods, producing diamonds from 0.3 carats up to stones exceeding 20 carats. Every diamond carries certification from IGI or other recognized gemological institutes—documentation that retailers need when customers inevitably ask, “How do I know this is real?”

The new fancy color line includes pink, blue, yellow, and green diamonds, each grown using controlled processes that determine final hue and saturation. Unlike surface treatments or irradiation, these colors develop during the growth phase itself, making them stable and permanent.

What separates Messi Jewelry from loose-stone suppliers is vertical integration. The company handles everything in-house: growing the crystals, cutting, polishing, setting, and final quality control. For brand partners, this means fewer vendors to coordinate, shorter lead times, and consistent output across product lines.

“Color is where lab-grown diamonds can really differentiate themselves,” explained Linda, Messi Jewelry’s CEO. “Mined fancy color diamonds cost a fortune—most people will never own one. But lab-grown fancy colors? They’re accessible. We can help a brand launch an entire colored diamond line in months, not years. That’s a competitive advantage traditional suppliers can’t match.”

What Brands Actually Get

Messi Jewelry’s client roster includes jewelry brands, retailers, and designers across multiple continents. The company’s service model covers three main areas:

Loose CVD diamonds in traditional white and the full fancy color range, available in various cuts and carat weights.

Finished jewelry pieces—rings, pendants, bracelets, tennis necklaces—ready for retail or requiring only minor customization.

Full OEM/ODM capabilities, where Messi Jewelry takes a brand’s concept from initial CAD sketches through production and packaging. Over 2,500 carats are produced each month, and there are over 5,000 completed pieces in standing inventory that can be fulfilled right away.

Brands that are rapidly growing or exploring new markets will find this structure especially appealing. Without developing a supply chain infrastructure, a European retailer can order 200 pink diamond pendants for a spring collection. Three different ring styles can be prototyped by an American designer, who can then gauge consumer reaction and adjust production to meet real demand.

The Sustainability Angle (Without the Greenwashing)

Lab-grown diamonds are frequently marketed as “eco-friendly” or “ethical,” claims that sometimes outpace the evidence. They don’t fund conflict zones, don’t force communities to relocate, and don’t require open-pit mining, all of which are quantifiable.

Millennials and Gen Z consumers in particular give these factors a lot of weight. Customers will investigate supply chains, pose pointed sourcing-related queries, and avoid companies that are unable to provide satisfactory responses. Many of these issues are completely avoided by lab-grown diamonds.

Messi Jewelry’s approach focuses on transparency over slogans. Their diamonds carry standard certifications. Production methods are CVD and HPHT, both well-established technologies. There’s no marketing spin about “saving the planet”—just straightforward information about what the diamonds are, how they’re made, and what documentation accompanies them.

“Our partners need to explain their products to end customers,” Jimmy Wu noted. “Vague sustainability claims don’t help them. Specific details about CVD growth processes and IGI certificates do. We provide the information they need to have honest conversations with buyers.”

Where Messi Jewelry Shows Up

Messi Jewelry maintains an active presence at major international trade shows, including JCK Las Vegas, the Hong Kong International Jewellery Show, China International Jewelry Fair, and Inhorgenta Munich. In September 2025, the company presented its latest collections at Jewellery & Gem World Hong Kong and the Watch & Jewellery Middle East Show in Sharjah, UAE, further strengthening its engagement with buyers across Asia and the Middle East.

Looking Forward

The lab-grown diamond sector has moved firmly into the mainstream, with broader retail adoption and growing consumer awareness. Within that landscape, Messi Jewelry is positioning itself around two priorities: expanding fancy color offerings and maintaining flexible manufacturing capacity for OEM/ODM partners.

By combining in-house production with customization capabilities, the company aims to support brands looking to differentiate their collections while responding quickly to market demand.

About Messi Jewelry

Messi Jewelry, founded in 2018 and based in Wuzhou, Guangxi, China, manufactures lab-grown diamonds using CVD and HPHT technologies. The company produces stones from 0.3 to 20+ carats, including fancy color varieties, all certified by IGI and other international gemological institutes.

Beyond loose diamonds, Messi Jewelry offers complete jewelry collections and OEM/ODM services for global brands and retailers. Monthly production capacity exceeds 2,500 carats, with standing inventory of more than 5,000 finished pieces available for immediate delivery.

Media Contact: 
CEO: Linda
Email: info@messijewelry.com
Website: www.messijewelry.com

PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos Islands, Dec. 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — CoinDesk Data released its 2025 Market Deep-Dive Report, a comprehensive analysis of exchange-level activity across the global digital asset market. Within this analysis, KuCoin emerged as a notable example of sustained performance, demonstrating strong trading volume growth, and resilient liquidity under complex and volatile market conditions. The findings illustrate how granular, exchange-level data can surface structural advantages — such as trading consistency and liquidity stability — that are not always visible through headline volume rankings or short-term market fluctuations.

Built on CoinDesk Data’s proprietary market data infrastructure, the report aggregates and normalizes data across thousands of trading pairs and dozens of centralized exchanges, providing a systematic view of trading volumes, market share, asset-level trading trends, asset stickiness, and liquidity dynamics.

According to the report, KuCoin firmly consolidated its position among the global top 10 centralized exchanges (Top 10 CEX) in 2025. Over the first eleven months of the year, cumulative spot and perpetual futures trading volume exceeded $1.25 trillion, with an average monthly volume of $114 billion.

Spot market activity averaged $46.1 billion per month, representing nearly a fourfold increase compared to 2023, reflecting a steady expansion in user participation and trading activity.

CoinDesk Data observed that KuCoin’s trading volumes followed a clear “stair-step” growth pattern, characterized by periods of sharp increases followed by sustained stability at higher levels. This pattern contrasts with the boom-and-bust cycles commonly observed in crypto markets and points to growing user stickiness, trading consistency, and platform maturity over time.

The report also highlights KuCoin’s liquidity performance following the October 10 market shock, a period during which liquidity conditions deteriorated across many centralized exchanges.

During this period, KuCoin’s order book depth for major altcoins remained broadly stable, placing it alongside Binance and OKX. CoinDesk Data identifies liquidity stability during periods of market stress as a key indicator of exchange robustness and trader confidence.

Throughout 2025, KuCoin maintained a new-asset listing pace consistently above the global industry average, reaching approximately two times the market norm during peak activity periods. This approach strengthened KuCoin’s role as an early venue for price discovery in emerging assets and sectors, reinforcing its positioning within the altcoin trading ecosystem.

CoinDesk Data’s analysis suggests that KuCoin’s performance in both trading volume growth and liquidity stability is underpinned by sustained investments in trust infrastructure.

In 2025, KuCoin launched and continued to advance its $2 billion Trust Project, focused on strengthening transparency, security architecture, and compliance capabilities. Over the course of the year, the exchange also achieved multiple security certification milestones and reached important regulatory compliance milestones, reinforcing its ability to operate under defined oversight frameworks across key jurisdictions.

Together, these initiatives provide a strong foundation for KuCoin’s resilient performance amid heightened market volatility and increasing regulatory scrutiny, supporting long-term user confidence as the digital asset market continues to mature. The full report is available here.

About KuCoin

Founded in 2017, KuCoin is a leading global crypto platform trusted by over 40 million users across 200+ countries and regions. The platform delivers innovative and compliant digital asset services, offering access to 1000+ listed coins, spot and futures trading, institutional wealth management, and a Web3 wallet. Recognized by Forbes and Hurun, KuCoin holds SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001:2022 Certifications, underscoring its commitment to top-tier security. With AUSTRAC registration in Australia and a MiCA license in Austria, KuCoin continues expanding its regulated footprint under CEO BC Wong, building a reliable digital‑asset ecosystem.  
Learn more: https://www.kucoin.com/ 

About CoinDesk

CoinDesk is the most trusted media, events, indices and data company for the global crypto economy. Since 2013, CoinDesk Media has led the story of the future of money and investing, illuminating the transformation in society and culture that comes with it. Part of Bullish Group (NYSE: BLSH), CoinDesk operates as an independent subsidiary and abides by a strict set of editorial policies. Our award-winning team of journalists delivers news and unparalleled insights that bring transparency, comprehension and context. CoinDesk Indices and CoinDesk Data provide institutional-grade benchmarks and analytics for the digital asset ecosystem. CoinDesk gathers the global crypto, blockchain and Web3 communities at annual events such as Consensus, the world’s largest and longest-running crypto festival. For more information, please visit CoinDesk.com.

BEIJING, Dec. 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — When disruptive changes redefined market demand in the past days of 2025, Chinese baijiu producer Wuliangye convened recently its annual convention to seek consensus for navigating the changing liquor market.

The event, the 29th Wuliangye 12•18 Annual Convention, caught global attention as a crowd of professionals gathered in Yibin City of Sichuan Province, southwest China, to decode how Chinese baijiu industry changed and where it will head for.

Experts in attendance stressed the disruptive, all-around changes in product, market and consumption structures of baijiu industry, saying that it is imperative for producers to face up to the challenges.

In essence, competitive landscape, value orientation and market logic of baijiu industry are being reshaped, making the present a critical period for liquor makers to take the initiative in winning the future.

New demand-led supply and new supply-driven demand are telling what the baijiu industry is undergoing currently, said Zeng Congqin, chairman of Wuliangye Group, adding that the company is well-prepared and confident to navigate the industry reshuffle.

Wuliangye’s determination stems from its advantages deeply rooted in its development fundamental, product quality, branding, market, teams and capital, all of which are expected to unlock more development potential.

For years, the Chinese baijiu maker has always taken premium product quality as its top priority, earmarking 113,333.33 hectares of grain fields for liquor brewing and establishing the hard tech-enabled 529 and 533 workshops for precise quality control.

These efforts resulted in its winning multiple quality awards at home and abroad, including the 2025 EFQM Global Award, one of the world’s three leading quality awards standing for benchmarks for organizational quality.

Via opening 474 specialty shops, experience shops, collection shops, and Wuliangye-themed restaurants in 2025, the Chinese baijiu maker witnessed a meteoric rise in bottle openings at banquet venues.

One of its low-alcohol products targeting young consumers once raked in over 100 million yuan sales revenues in just two months after being put on shelves and overseas consumption scenarios yet enriched along with opening of the Wuliangye-themed restaurants in Singapore and Japan.

As a business manager of a Malaysian firm noted, he is confident in the future of Wuliangye given its premium quality, brand status and market value and is willing to continue cooperation with the company in Malaysia.

Original link: https://en.imsilkroad.com/p/348905.html 

Powered by LightX2V inference framework to enable low‑cost, high-throughput video generation

HONG KONG, Dec. 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — SenseTime launched its Seko 2.0, a multi-episode drama generation agent tailored for short drama and motion comic creators. Supporting production up to 100-episode series, Seko 2.0 ensures consistency in characters, scenes, and props across episodes. It significantly boosts production efficiency, reducing comic drama production time by 80% to 90% compared to traditional methods. 

Seko 2.0 is powered by SenseTime’s open‑source LightX2V framework, the industry’s first inference framework capable of real‑time video generation. This innovative framework allows for cost-effective and high-throughput video production.

Supporting 100-episode series generation  
First launched in July 2025, Seko attracted over 100,000 creators within two months and its user base surpassed 200,000 in less than half a year, 30% of which were short drama creators and 20% comic drama creators. 

The new Seko 2.0 further lowers the creative threshold and enables more efficient video production. Its key upgraded features include: 

• A revamped User Interface (UI) with optimized visual presentation, delivering an immersive creative experience.
• Multi-episode generation capability with long-context management, supporting the creation up to 100 episodes.
• Intelligent Agent scheduling, enabling flexible association of characters, scenes, and props across episodes, with character makeup and styling adaptable to different scenarios.

Xu Li, Chairman of the Board and CEO of SenseTime, stated: “Seko will open a door for people, who have creative imagination, but lack of professional production capabilities, so they can truly enter the creative ecosystem and unleash their imagination.” He added that, as AI capabilities continue to evolve, the quality of generated episodes will gradually move up, generating both refined “high-brow” works and popular “low-brow” content that can coexist harmoniously. 

AI comic and short dramas have experienced an explosive growth in China. Data shows that the supply of comic dramas in mainland China surged at compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 83% in the first half of this year. Meanwhile, more than 3,000 works were produced with total revenues jumping by 12 times. Many individual creators and small teams have joined this creative trend, some even taking it as their second career. 

Enabling multi-person lip-sync & audio-visual synchronization 
Most existing AI video generation products on the market only support single-episode short films or clip production. To meet creators’ urgent demand for high-quality, large-scale multi-episode production, Seko 2.0 achieves two core technology breakthroughs: 

1) SekoIDX: Achieving character consistency across multi-episode and cross-shot scenarios
Maintaining character consistency across episodes and shots has long been an industry challenge. Traditional generation methods often result in characters appearing as “copied and pasted” (lacking vividness) or “unrecognizable” when responding to new motion or expression promots. By introducing “negative reference images” in the high-noise phase of diffusion models, SekoIDX ensures character consistency across multi-episode and cross-shot content while avoiding excessive similarity to reference images. It also maintains high stability when responding to commands for different expressions, poses, and scenes. 

2) SekoTalk: Realizing multi-person lip-sync and natural audio-visual synchronization
Traditional digital human technology often suffers from inaccurate lip-sync in complex scenarios involving multi-language and multi-person interactions. As the industry’s first solution supporting lip-sync for more than two people, SekoTalk achieves highly precise audio-visual synchronization from single-person to multi-person interactions through a series of innovative designs, whether for daily conversations, intense arguments, or group counting. 

These underlying technology breakthroughs directly translate to a leap in productivity. Under the traditional workflow, a team would typically take over three months to complete 50 episodes. With Seko 2.0, the comic drama production cycle can be reduced by 80% to 90%. Seko’s comprehensive features make it feasible for independent creators to produce videos in a “one-person crew” model. 

• Explore SekoTalk, built on LightX2V and SenseTime’s generation model, enabling multi‑person lip‑sync and natural audio‑visual synchronization for videos: http://sekotalk.com/

Adapting to domestic solutions  
Multi-episode creation of AI short dramas and comic dramas involves a large number of shots. A single 5-second video requires generating nearly 100,000 tokens, and 10 to 20 shots can result in a total token demand of 1 to 2 million. 

To address this challenge, SenseTime has developed Phased DMD Distillation technology, which can significantly reduce the overall cost of multi-episode generation. By combining phased distillation with a Mixture of Experts (MoE) model, it allows different models to specialize in different stages of the generation process, substantially improving overall model capability and efficiency without increasing inference costs. 

SenseTime has also open-sourced LightX2V, the industry’s first inference framework enabling real-time video generation. Through optimizations such as DiT distillation acceleration, lightweight VAE, and sparse attention, it achieves low-cost real-time video generation. LightX2V can generate a 5-second video on consumer-grade graphics cards in under 5 seconds, significantly outperforming Sora2, which takes several minutes. To date, it has accumulated over 5.3 million downloads and has gained widespread popularity among creators worldwide.

• Serve a custom generation model with LightX2V: https://github.com/ModelTC/LightX2V
• Try the distilled lora trained by LightX2V team: https://huggingface.co/lightx2v/
• Experience LightX2V online for free: https://x2v.light-ai.top/login

On domestic chip platforms, Seko can achieve generation effects comparable to international chip platforms in similar timeframes. International chip platforms can generate 1.25 seconds of video per second of operation, while domestic chip platforms generate 1.0625 seconds per second. With domestic chip performance improving and ecosystem maturing, this gap is expected to further narrow down. 

In the future, SenseTime will also offer domestic solution options for Seko creators, ushering in a low-cost era of AI video creation with extreme cost-performance ratio. 

Topping Douyin’s AI short drama chart  
In the comic and short drama market, Seko has successfully incubated a series of hit shows, including the live-action short drama “Wan Xin Ji“, which topped Douyin’s AI Short Drama Chart. Works such as “I Built a Doomsday Fortress on the Mountain Top” and “Yin Shen Lu” have also gained widespread attention. 

In the high-quality film and television sector, Seko has officially reached a strategic partnership with Yangtze River Film Group, a leading enterprise in the film and television industry. The two parties will jointly explore the integrated innovation of “Generative AI (AIGC) + Film and Television,” planning to launch a series of short dramas based on Jingchu cultural and historical stories next year. The two sides will also co-incubate theatrical-level AIGC films, promoting the integration of AI creative tools into professional film and television production processes. 

Distinguished UTM alumnus and national leader honoured for his leadership, scholarship, and impact on global standing.

JOHOR BAHRU, Malaysia, Dec. 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — After an illustrious 37-year career in academia and public service, Dato’ Seri Ir. Dr. Zaini Ujang, one of Malaysia’s most respected administrators and scholars, has been conferred the title of Professor Emeritus in conjunction with Universiti Teknologi Malaysia’s 69th Convocation Ceremony.

A Distinguished Career of Service and Leadership

As a proud double alumnus of Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Dr. Zaini earned a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering (1988) before pursuing a PhD in Environmental Engineering at Newcastle University. An internationally recognized scholar, he has authored over 250 scientific papers and 36 books, including Ecoshift: Holistic Transformation towards Environmental Sustainability (2018) and Japanese Ecosophy: A Traveller’s Notes (2019). His research excellence in water engineering and sustainability has earned him fellowships at renowned institutions including MIT, Imperial College London, Tsukuba, and Lund University.

Additionally, Dr. Zaini’s appointment as Vice-Chancellor of UTM from 2008 to 2013 marked a historical milestone, as the first UTM alumnus and youngest individual to lead a public university in Malaysia. He remains the only Malaysian to have served as Secretary-General of five key ministries, namely Higher Education, Health, Human Resources, Environment and Water, and Energy, Green Technology and Water. Moreover, as the Chairman of the Technical Committee for the Malaysia Higher Education Blueprint 2015–2025, Dr. Zaini played a pivotal role in shaping Malaysia’s higher education transformation agenda. These leadership roles reflect his extraordinary versatility and impact on national development.

Dr Zaini’s professional journey, from being a UTM academic to Vice-Chancellor, policymaker, and global ambassador, exemplifies the transformative leadership that UTM continues to nurture. His long-standing commitment to knowledge, ethics, and service certainly underscores UTM’s vision of producing graduates who lead with intellect and integrity, advancing both national progress and global collaboration,

Even beyond retirement, Dr. Zaini continues to serve the nation. In March 2025, he was reappointed as Chairman of the Malaysian Qualifications Agency (MQA), reaffirming his continued leadership in shaping Malaysia’s higher education quality standards and global benchmarking. Through this role, he continues to guide academic governance and innovation, ensuring Malaysia’s education system remains internationally competitive and aligned with future skills demands in sustainability and digital transformation.

Expanding Malaysia’s Knowledge Agenda: 100-Day World Lecture Tour

Following his retirement from public service in March 2025, he embarked on a new transformative academic mission, the 100-Day World Lecture Tour, marking the close of a remarkable 37-year journey that reshaped Malaysia’s higher education and environmental landscape.

Spanning 15 countries and more than 40 world-leading universities and research institutions, the tour, held between April and July 2025, served as a platform to promote Malaysia’s “culture of knowledge” on the global stage.

Throughout his travels, Dr. Zaini met with academic and research leaders in the United States, United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Sweden, and Turkiye, among others. He delivered more than 40 lectures, engaged with 10 university presidents, and fostered international partnerships aimed at strengthening Malaysia’s higher education and research ecosystems. His lectures and dialogues emphasized how cross-cultural collaboration, environmental ethics, and innovation are central in shaping the future of universities.

“It is important to broaden global perspectives in higher education and strengthen international academic collaboration to deliver meaningful benefits to Malaysia, particularly its institutions of higher learning.” Said DS Ir. Ts. Dr Zaini.

Following his return, he initiated a series of sharing sessions across Malaysian higher learning institutions, inspiring academics and students to “build knowledge networks without borders” and to translate global insights into meaningful local change.

“Exposure to the cultures and education systems of various countries provides academics with significant opportunities to gain new knowledge and create strategic avenues for research and development collaboration,” he said while delivering his address to more than 400 academic staff, administrators, and students of Universiti Malaysia Sarawak.

Therefore, Dr. Zaini’s lifelong service demonstrates that leadership is not defined by position, but by purpose. His 100-Day World Tour represents more than a personal milestone, but also a national statement that Malaysia’s intellectual capital is ready to engage, exchange, and compete on the global stage.

About Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM):

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) is a research-intensive public university specialising in engineering, science, and technology, with a growing international profile in sustainability, innovation, and the humanities. Established in 1904 and located in Johor Bahru and Kuala Lumpur, UTM is dedicated to producing global talents, impactful research, and meaningful partnerships that contribute to a more just and sustainable world.